by Charles Oropallo | October 1, 2021 10:44 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
Everyone wants their web pages to come up lightning fast. There are several reasons they might not – ranging from your internet connection through the number of other users in your area or even the weather conditions – to name but a few. Despite that,...
by Charles Oropallo | July 27, 2021 5:32 pm | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
The spamming of web forms has grown tremendously over the past several years. Spamming forms is inevitable with any forms on websites. This has little or nothing to do with where your website is hosted. The problem The main problem is that even though it is, and has...
by Charles Oropallo | July 25, 2021 4:59 pm | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Keeping your site cleared of spam comments will also allow it to operate more efficiently. Getting spam comments has nothing to do with your web hosting. It has to do with setting up what is necessary to mitigate the spammers. This will help immensely with keeping...
by Charles Oropallo | July 24, 2021 3:24 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
Within days of this writing, the Twenty Ten theme was updated. The fact that this theme is still kept up is a very good thing from a security point of view. The update included what appeared to be more extensive uses of blocks in WordPress. In my opinion, WordPress...
by Charles Oropallo | July 6, 2021 5:33 pm | Email, Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Spam Prevention nightmares Spam prevention has been a nightmare for all involved since even before I began CharlesWorks in 1998. Spammers: they are always trying to find ways around the spam protection. Email users: It is a constant battle trying to sort spam from...
by Charles Oropallo | July 4, 2021 1:45 pm | Q & A, Random Info
Here we are at the 4th of July of 2021 already! The loss of life suffered in 2020 was horrendous. Yet there are people who still do not think in terms of helping their fellow citizens – and themselves – by being vaccinated. The vaccine misinformation mills...
by Robin Snow | March 27, 2021 6:04 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
Contact Form 7 can be made auto responsive in a Divi site by simply adding in the appropriate CSS code to allow it to happen. Add the following to Custom CSS /* Contact Form7 mobile styling */ @media screen and (max-width: 768px){ .wpcf7 #Personal-Details, .wpcf7...
by Charles Oropallo | March 27, 2021 1:11 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
The WP Forms plugin for WordPress is fairly popular and one of the plugins I like using for handle form inputs on websites. I especially like being able to tie in Google RECAPTCHA into it which greatly reduces form spam. Form spamming has become big business. Apps...
by Robin Snow | March 24, 2021 11:46 am | Technical Help, WordPress
Go to edit any product from the products list. You should see a field that says Product Data with a drop down below the text area. Click on the drop down and change the product from a Simple Product to a variable one Click on attributes in the left hand options on the...
by Robin Snow | March 5, 2021 4:46 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
Log into your WordPress Dashboard: In a browser, enter https://yourdomainname/wp-admin (if this does not work and you are a CharlesWorks web client, please give us a call or email us and we’ll help). Login with your administrative credentials (you should have been...
by Robin Snow | March 5, 2021 4:38 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
WordPress Edits Log into your WordPress Dashboard: In a browser, enter https://yourdomainname/wp-admin (if this does not work and you are a CharlesWorks web client, please give us a call or email us and we’ll help). Login with your administrative credentials (you...
by Robin Snow | March 3, 2021 9:42 am | Technical Help, WordPress
Log into your WordPress Dashboard: In a browser, enter https://yourdomainname/wp-admin (if this does not work and you are a CharlesWorks web client, please give us a call or email us and we’ll help). Login with your administrative credentials (you should have...
by Robin Snow | March 2, 2021 6:19 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
Go to the CTA module Advanced Settings Go to Custom CSS Promo Button Add this code: position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0; margin: auto; Add this to the hover tab as well to avoid having the button jump up when...
by Robin Snow | March 1, 2021 9:57 am | Technical Help, WordPress
/* Bulleted list spacing */ li { line-height: 1.7; padding: 5px; } or /* Bulleted list spacing */ .entry-content ol, .entry-content ul { padding: 30px 0px 30px 50px; list-style-position: outside; } .entry-content ol li, .entry-content ul li { margin-bottom: 10px;...
by Robin Snow | March 1, 2021 9:32 am | Technical Help, WordPress
Add to css in child theme, and adjust colors accordingly: /* Read more blog button */ .more-link { background-color: #1f568e; display: inline-block !important; color: #fff; padding: 5px 15px; margin-top: 15px; text-transform: uppercase; } .more-link:hover {...
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